In this installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling
worlds to bring us the story of Armand -- eternally young, with the face of
a Botticelli angel. We travel with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev
Rus of his boyhood -- a ruined city under Mongol dominion -- and to ancient
Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a
magnificent
palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and
intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among
humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand
the gift
of vampiric blood.
As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and
elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship, to nineteenth-century Paris and
today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced
to
choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal
soul.
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